No, the sky is NOT cloned! This canyon is famous around here for its fall colors, and rightly so. I happened to find a nice sky, too, but I had to hike through weeds for a half mile in my slippers to put the effects into the right place relative to the hill and trees.
PP: Put sky and ground on different layers. Sky: autocontrast, then faded until it looked good to me. Used Neatimage to clean it up a bit. Ground: lightened, cloned out a few fence posts, adjusted levels, but not colors (well, okay, when you adjust levels, you are adjusting colors, too). I used my Watercolor Filter and Crosshatch Filter at 15% technique to augment the textures. I also burned the shadows of the aspens at left to bring out their details. Gosh, I can't think of anything else--Oh yeah, I sharpened it, converted to DPC size, sharpened again and added a 4 pixel border.
I hope you enjoy this season as much as I do!
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Lovely! I would have liked to have seen more of the reds from the trees. As is, the colors are a little washed out and not as crisp as they could have been, IMO. Great corner of the world though! Wish I were there.
WOW!!! x 100!! haha ABSOLUTELY AMAZING COLORS!! I would definitely hang this up on a wall! great respresentation of topic!! Please PM me if you make prints!! BEAUTIFUL!! 10
The striations of the clouds in combination with the great contrast of the warm and cool tones gives this photo the SNAP that I like to see. I wish it were larger - it seems smaller than the 640 maximum allowance. I'd love to see more texture of the beautiful trees. Still a really eye catching landscape. 8
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